Saturday, January 31, 2009

Had a wonderfull day with my parents. The food was delicious, and the kids had a great time. My mom had bought me a new hair-clip-comb thingy, and fixed my hair, which is too long. Haven´t cut my hair for a very long time. I think it´s nice with long hair, but unusual, so I don´t know what to do with it....

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

I´m home from work today, to look after my 2 year old, Marie. She´s been under the weather for soome days now, and is tired. Been sleeping for over two hours now. I don´t mind, getting plenty of fun sewingthings done. I relax, as i have spoken to my boss, who has taken care of my clients today.

Just had Pasta Carbonara for lunch, yum. (Carbon based pasta, as opposed to Silicon based?)

I tried to change the layout on my blog. It´s nothing wrong with the way it is, but i really wanted a cooler background, not this booring green one. But all i find are complete themes, and when I tried one of them out, my widgets dissapeared, and I dont feel like adding and customize them again...

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

There´s a first time for everything. I will no enter the world of hand stitching. I start easy with fusible web. I will spice it up a nodge when I get going with the appliqued blcks on the DJ, and do the freezerpaper-thing...

Still waiting for background fabric before entering the word of DJ "for real". But I have made som preperations. In addition to getting the book, i have made copies of the first nine blocks i will start with, i have put each copy in its own plastic sleeve in a ring binder. The intention is to do the apliques by hand, and most of the piecing by machine. I picture i will prepare the applique blocks so i can just take a plastic sleeve with me when i go somewhere and need something to stich.

No i will go do some Ironing, and then i will get my crayons and play with colors, maybe i´ll post a drawing tomorrow.

My local quilt-shop throws the winter-sale on february 6. Even though i eager to getting started with my new project, I will wait till then, and go Shop-o-rama!

I think i will go for a medium to dark value, greyish blue background, and make the motifs in a TATW style, from oceangreen/blue to plum/ purple.

This will be so much fun!

Now, to shorten the wait for the sale, I will make my two blocks for this springs guildquilt, and finnish the quilt to my brother, which only misses the binding. Wonder wether i should go for the same fabric as the outer border, or pick another one... What do you think? It´s the one in the picture under the section "Teppet til broren min".

Sunday, January 25, 2009

I will post these picture for Vicky from Wisconsin to see... We do have a lot of snow here, but it is not very cold. We´ve had a long periode of very cold weather, but now it is milder, and snowing.

Winter in Norway is not easily described due to the variations in climate throughout our long thin country. Some people live in cold dry innland climate, while others by the coast where it is more likely to rain more, for instans in Bergen. Drammen, where i live is somewhere in between, we sometimes have a coastlike climate, but it can be really cold here, with freezing fog from the river, and we often have periods during the winter with pretty much snow.

As you see from the pictures, we live with our driveway close to an intersection, and the snowplows dumps this huge pile of snow just outside our "door"... You see, the road our driveway is in, is plowed by the municipal plowers, whilst the road it ends in (and the road we actually live in, according to our adress) is plowed by the regional governments roadmaintenence. And who gets the snow???

What do we learn from this? Stay in and sew till you can spot little green leaves on the trees outside the window!

Saturday, January 24, 2009

I exptect (at some point) to deliver the "Quilters blog of choice", and have tons of visits to my page. I guess, however that most of my postings will be in Norwegian, so I ask you please let me know when it is about time i start writing in English, due to my huge mass of international readers...

Last weekend i mad my first tote bag. The denim fabric was supposed to be the lining, but the outside turned out so "screaming" and messy in colours (used some leftover blocks from a previous project) so i decides to turn it inside out.

First success in free motoin quilting. I have never really got the hang of free motion quilting, but suddenly it just worked! I did it :D :D :D

(I have to turn my bag inside out to show off my swirls and twirls, though)

The denimside is quilted with decorative stitches on my sewingmachine.

My new years resolution was to drink more water, so i had to make a little table topper to put my flask on. I had the block laying from a mysteryquilt i never finnished, and just put a border and cornertriangels "Voila"!